Ritter/Zamet is pleased to present “I AM THE LAW”, a collaborative exhibition by New York-based artist-writer Rupert Goldsworthy and legendary sound artist/montagist Mark Stewart. The exhibition runs from 18 January to 18 February, 2012. There will be a reception at the gallery on Wednesday, 18 January from 6-9pm. The artists will do a performance during the opening.
Rupert Goldsworthy became notorious in the mid-Nineties for running art provocation projects first in Berlin and then in Chelsea, New York. Goldsworthy's paintings and installations address taboos (political and emotional) using post-Pop methodology. His concerns include the Cold War, colonial history and the iconography of Seventies radicalism. Goldsworthy has concurrent exhibitions at Massimo Audiello Gallery, Mexico City, and Illuminated Metropolis, Chelsea, New York City.
Holland Cotter, art critic for The New York Times, writes of Goldsworthy's work: “Sharp, dark, hard to pin down but definitely there. Names of suicidal rock stars, student radicals, celebrity drugs, Black Panthers, gay clubs and aged movie queens with sad, twilight histories bounce off each other and interconnect like fragments of overheard conversations. And while the textual melange – blasts from the past plus cultural arcana – makes fun 'reading', it also has a distinctive moral texture."
RITTER/ZAMET Unit 8, 80a Ashfield Street London E1 2BJ Tel: + 44 (0) 20 7790 8746 info@ritterzamet.com www.ritterzamet.com Wednesday – Saturday 12-6 pm Aldgate East / Whitechapel tube
